More from Benjamin Disraeli

  1. I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.
  2. Consider Ireland. You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in th…
  3. Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the…
  4. The noble lord is the Prince Rupert of parliamentary discussion: his charge is resistless, but when he returns from the pursuit he always f…
  5. I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and …
  6. It is knowledge that influences and equalises the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, p…
  7. To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them.
  8. The right honorable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their …

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